Law and science
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Law and science
（Current legal issues, 1998 ; v. 1）
Oxford University Press, 1998
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This is the first volume of an exciting new series, Current Legal Issues, which will be published each spring as a sister volume to Current Legal Problems. The basis for each interdisciplinary volume will be a two-day colloquium held each year by the Faculty of Laws at University College London. This first volume explores the interrelationship of law and science. Future volumes will examine themes such as law and literature, law
and medicine, law and religion, etc.
This book, the first volume of Current Legal Issues, explores the relationship of law and science, with a particular focus on the role of science as evidence. Scientific evidence impinges on a wide range of legal issues, including, for example, risk assessment in mental health and child abuse, criminal investigations, chemical and medical products, mass tort cases and the attribution of paternity. Science promises to reduce (or even eliminate) uncertainty; how should lawyers
respond to such ambitious claims? As the civil justice process undergoes a major overhaul, this diverse and stimulating collection of essays provides a timely and thought-provoking reassessment of the relationship between law and science in general and the uses and value of scientific evidence in particular.
From the Editors' Introduction
This volume addresses the intersection between law and science, two monolithic institutions which generally compete for, but sometimes coincide in presenting, an authoritative analysis of the world. The contributors to this volume take different views as to who is the victor in this contest Science deals in objective reality; therefore it is for scientists to reveal as much as they can about reality, and for the law to determine what should be made of the discoveries. Perhaps this division
of labour is too simplistic, but if it is taken as a model, it is apparent that law and science are bound together and that mutual understanding is essential. If this volume contributes to that understanding then it will have performed an invaluable service.
Table of Contents
- Cognitive science, legal theory and the possibility of an observation/theory distinction in morality and law
- Science, reason, and tort law: looking for the reasonable person
- The role of scientific evidence in the assessment of causation in medicinal product liability litigation: a probabilistic and economic analysis
- Pedro Juan Cubillo v Commonwealth of Australia (1995): right result, wrong method
- The BSE crisis: a study of the precautionary principle and the politics of science in law
- A new criterion for the admissibility of scientific evidence? The metamorphosis of helpfulness
- Reflections on expert evidence in Canadian criminal proceedings: more lessons from North America
- The risks and dangers of experts in court
- Laws truth, lay truth and medical science: three case studies
- Brainwashing evidence in the light of Daubert: science and unpopular religions
- What lawyers need to know about science
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